I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.

  • -- Ian McEwan 伊恩·麦克尤恩

我总是否认这一点,但我想我真正想说的是,我写作是为了震惊……我挖得很深,把当时使我着迷的各种丑恶的东西都挖了出来。

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Last year, things were a little different than they are now, ... I guess if you're going to look for reasons, look for excuses, I guess you could say those.

去年的情况和现在有点不同,……我想如果你要找理由,找借口,我想你可以这么说。

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

诗歌是它自己的媒介;这和写散文很不一样。诗歌可以以意象的方式说话,它有独特的捕捉环境的方式。

I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.

我猜如果我是一个产品,你要么是巧克力,要么是香草,要么是奶油糖果。你不可能三个都是。

Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.

好的小说是去掉所有无聊的部分,而不是去掉所有的困难。

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.

我一直患支气管炎。我已经三次接受了死亡圣礼。

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

有些事情你不能和安塞尔讨论,尤其是当你不同意的时候。

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.

每次我拍有肢体接触的电影,我都说绝不再拍了。

Things have their time, even eminence bows to timeliness.

万物皆有它的时间,即使显赫也会屈服于时效性。